Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Nagasaki

Kokura was the primary target on August 9, 1945, but it was too cloudy to drop the bomb, so the planes moved on to their secondary target, Nagasaki. Of course thousands of lives were saved that day in Kokura, while thousands were lost in Nagasaki.

1 comment:

jmbhatt said...

ominous cumulus looming large/ mind defies barriers of time/ humanity; ever so repentant :(